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I'd sure like to make a public comment asking what is the status of the Roger and Dot Abbott homicide investigation. It's been more than 4 months since this heinous crime, and Dunwoody PD has been all but silent after their initial no-comment posture during the first part of the investigation.

While the Mayor is really pleased that they caught his home invaders within 8 minutes of his 911 call, no one seems to be speaking for the Abbotts.

Oh, the little people, how sorry I am for the burden of your failed and useless lives.

My, how swiftly the small minds of Dunwoody turn on their our police force. I'll bet the Dekalb County Police Department is relieved they no longer have to kiss the arrogant arses of Dunwoodians.

Why make such an untrue and belligerent statement that no one is speaking for these unfortunate victims and infer that the Dunwoody Police Department is uncaring? Why not make a civilized inquiry of the police?

I'm sure the Dunwoody Police Department would share something with us if they felt it pertinent for the general public to know.

Perhaps the Dunwoody Police Department has tactical investigative reasons for not revealing all the evidence they have gathered. Or perhaps the Dunwoody Police are only sharing this information with the immediate family and choose not to do the same with grown men who still go by little boys' nicknames.

Really folks, the Dunwoody Police have been doing a great job; please let them continue. I'm sure these brave men and women are doing everything possible to solve this grievous crime. Let's allow them to do this.

"Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in." Michael Corleone

Of course I have to get back in the game when my wife reports back to me of unfair comments directed to the Dunwoody Police Department.

Why do my fellow citizens of Dunwoody have to be so nasty? Why couldn't the commenter have just made an inquiry of the Dunwoody Police Department like, "We are very concerned and anxious to find out the latest status of the Abbott homicide investigation, as we have empathy for the victims' family and friends and are worried about our own families' safety." instead of popping off with a smart-ass dictum that the Dunwoody Police don't give a damn about the victims.

I really can't believe you others are supporting these type of curt and imperious remarks that were clearly an iniquitous effort to taint the courageous men and women of the Dunwoody Police Department with callousness and apathy, but I guess that goes with the territory of being entitled Dunwoodians with inherited wealth expecting life's fortunes to continue to be handed over to you at the snap of your greedy little fingers.

Sorry, Wishbone, but I'm out of town and couldn't respond to your bombast in a timely fashion.

You certainly like to attack straw men you set up, and aren't afraid to throw in a few red herrings now and then.

My request for an update was nothing more than a request. The Dunwoody Police have a system for publishing press releases, and they haven't update their story since July 12, 2010. A simple, "the investigation continues" would have been "an update."

You're interpretation of my remarks (plus implicating your wife as the initial source of the interpretation) reminds me of an old guy we all know name of "Adam". Seems he ate an apple he shouldn't have, and when he got caught, he blamed it on his wife!!!

And to the point of "speaking for the Abbott's" of course the family and friends are involved; but my request shows a broader interest of the community-at-large for fellow citizens. If I'm not putting too much romanticism into it, I thought that was also part of what Dunwoody wanted to be--a place where people cared about their neighbors.

“The Secret Service can help us with calligraphers and stuff like that,” said Dunwoody Police spokesman. The FBI is helping with the general investigation. We’re seeking all the help we can get.” Champion newspaper 07/23/10 My question, did they ask DeKalb Police to assist. DeKalb has far more experience, resources and manpower for these type of investigations than Dunwoody.

Why, of course, I have to build straw-men when there is an obvious void of character in your comments.

Listen, bottom-line here, is that no inept attempt at eloquence on your part shall hide the fact that you inferred the Dunwoody Police Department and Mayor to be apathetic to the murder victims; this without having made a civilized inquiry of the Department for status on the investigation.

And FYI, in the context you used the word, it should have been spelled "your" not "you're".

One word of caution, don't get into a battle of wits and come so obviously half-armed!

Read my original post. What part of it is incorrect? Has there been an official update since July 12 or not? Has there been any public mention of the case since July 12, or not?

Several Council members expressed regret and sympathy to the family at the time, as was appropriate. Several hoped that a quick resolution and arrest of the perpetrator(s) would be forthcoming.

Four months later, no one has updated the case. Asking the PIO for a personal update doesn't get the story out into the public. That's what the PIO is supposed to do. If the police have concluded that no danger to the general public exists, that the crime was committed as a random act, or that there was a particular relationship between the killers and the Abbotts, any of that information is general enough to be shared, both for the general welfare of the community and in fulfillment of Dunwoody's transparency commitment.

You set up the straw men about dissatisfied Dunwoody elites, vacuous lives, etc. etc. Your adjectives were "small" "belligerent" "imperious" "nasty" "smart-assed"

My adjectives only described the factual aspects of the Dunwoody police posture during the initial investigation. The Dunwoody Police explained why they were compelled, of necessity, to limit information in the early stages. Four months later, it's hard to imagine that every aspect of the case requires that same restriction on information flow.

As for the ad hominem part of your attack on me, I doubt your Momma called you Wishbone on your birth certificate. Either you were named after a turkey neck (my guess), a salad dressing, or the chuck wagon cook on "Wagon Train". So who's hiding where?

If you're concerned by my eloquence, it only shows how small minded and indefensible your position is. If you had any real backbone, you would have simply stated your objections and disagreed.

I apologize for not needing a thesaurus with me to help write my opinion. Regretfully, my parents were of such a mind as to send me to college, and unlike some others (btw, this means you!), I profited from the experience.

Chip

Ps. Thank you for the small grammatical correction. It was an inadvertent error, but an error none-the-less.

Hmmm, I thought my allusion to your eloquence was an obvious attempt at irony on my part. I guess next time I'll have to assess my audience first as to the degree of subtlety I should use.

No, you're (sorry, I guess in your world I should write "your") wrong about my name. "Nolan" is actually my surname, and "Wishbone" is a nickname my Grandpa gave me after my parents divorced and there were custody battles over my siblings and me. It stuck through my days in the service and with friends and family as well.

Not sure why they bothered fighting over us. My Grandpa said that all was required for a divorce was my Daddy saying to my Mom, "I divorce you." three times, then my Daddy taking us older boys and my oldest sister to cook for us, and my Mom keeping the little ones and my other sisters. But my Mom starting seeing a lawyer who said she should have all her children with her.

As to my education, you are correct, no I didn't have anyone to pay for college for me. I left high school for the service, then got my GED years later.

But I should cease this insipient bonhomie as you know I only speak ad hominem, and the next thing you know, I'll be crying in my rye.

Since you like to harp on the nits, why not mention that I failed to put the "d" on "update" in my original post, too? That oversight causes considerable angst every time I think about it.

That way, you can obfuscate, pontificate, and continue to avoid any meaningful response to points raised, while believing(an audience of one, certainly) in your wit and perspicacity.

To correct a misinterpretation and incorrect inference you drew from my previous post, I only said my parents were of a mind to send me to college, not that they paid for college. Turns out, I worked throughout my collegiate experiences and with a combination of scholarships, employment, and now paid-off student loans was able to complete my education. Thanks for another insinuation masquerading as response.

Your allusion to my eloquence was not an example of irony, by the way. Many folks misidentify the uses of irony. More importantly, your use of "inferred" was grammatically incorrect. I had, up to now, been willing to let this one slide. For your continuing (and remedial) education, an inference is a conclusion drawn from an implication. In common usage, the implication is usually an incomplete suggestion, from which both valid and invalid conclusions (inferences) may be drawn.

Now, strictly speaking, you should have written: "...you implied that the Dunwoody Police Department and the mayor were apathetic...." not "...you inferred that the Dunwoody Police department and the mayor were apathetic...."

I know you appreciate all this advice on your grammar and syntax, as you are so willing to dole it out! (Oh,oh, oh...can't help myself! You see what I've just done?) I've inferred your appreciation based on the implication of your nit-picking harangue about my inappropriate word-use. No subtlety needed there!!!

Good morning, Wishbone. Please be sure to put a little more vinegar in your rye after you read this.

You can take it or leave it here, but I believe I shall be leaving this unenlightening exchange. I'm thinking from your initial unfounded scurrilous implication directed at the Dunwoody Police Department and the city's Mayor to your imperious thinking that you are "schooling" me is just so much evidence of one proving themselves a pompous ass.

Son, son, son, do you really think that with your little college jobs worked while a middle-class child of entitlement means you have accomplished anything? Please, if anything in this little tete-a-tete we have so enjoyed here, is that maybe you should set aside your arrogance, take a good look in the mirror and realize that you are only an accumulation of your environmental histories that have reinforced your existing favorable consequences, just as my impoverished youth has left me a bitter old man.

However, your failure to comprehend this is also a result of your inferential past (and don't think that my use of "inferential" as opposed to "implied" is ipso facto evidence that you have "schooled" me).

Take care, and hopefully once you come off that high horse of yours and start smelling the flowers, you'll become that pleasant young man that your Momma meant you to be.

For future reference and in rebuttal of your opinion of me, please know that I am the son of blue-collar parents. My father, like you, achieved his GED certificate. He worked many hours in the meat-packing industry and as a manual laborer, while my mother held a variety of clerical jobs. Neither attended college, but both thought it important their children have that opportunity if possible.

I grew with four siblings and a grandmother in a little salt-box house with only one bathroom. Hardly the plush, dilettante background that you imagine for the rest of your Dunwoody neighbors.

Both sets of grandparents were immigrants, barely able to read or speak English. I am no "entitled" person, to whom life has come easily. Yes, I have benefited from a fine education, again earned and paid-for with my own funds....my parents were not able to assist me in that regard. That being said, I am keenly aware of my obligations to them and to society at large to use my acquired skills to work to improve myself, my neighborhood, and my community.

Unlike you, however, I have not let the humbleness of my upbringing saddle me with vindictiveness and bile and regret for things that I never had, nor displeasure at how things turned out. Nor do I feel the need to "level the playing field" by denigrating and dismissing others--- unless they prove themselves to be bullies.

I'm on no "high-horse" except to trash the ignorant, the irascible, the uncivil, and the irresponsible.

We might have had a decent conversation, if you'd only had the class to disagree with me without all the name calling.

Don't think this is just me "howling at the moon"; you've clearly had issues with your posts, before.

Next time you write, leave the invective and the bile and the name-calling out of it. Stick to facts. You'll do better.

By the way, did you ever take your own advice and call the PIO? I'll wager not.

Hey, fish and Chips dude, it sure reads like you were the one being ignorant, irascible, uncivil, and irresponsible with the accusation of investigative misfeasance that you leveled at the police and mayor in your first comment.

I guess you're just never gonna get that log outta your eye are you? In that case, I guess, just party on unperceiving Chips dude!

Heneghan Philosophy on Public Service

As a long time resident of the Dunwoody North community who created this blog to fulfill two ideals. First is that when I have the ability to make a difference, I have a responsibility to do so and second, transparency in Government breeds self-corrective behavior.

After the creation of the City of Dunwoody which I worked to establish, I stepped down from being the President of the Dunwoody North Civic Association to run for a seat on the new City Council. Since my election in 2008, I have prided myself of posting every public document and agenda item to this blog for all to see.